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...this were just another milestone for the Court Circular. The lurid tabloids headlined it as the day when, in the words of the Daily Sketch, "she can marry whom she pleases," and went on to relate with simulated disapproval the latest American reports on Group Captain Peter Townsend, 40, the R.A.F. fighter-pilot hero and British air attaché in Brussels whom all Fleet Street expects Margaret to marry...
...significance of the day is that at 25 the Princess need no longer ask her sister's permission to marry. The Queen, as head of a church that does not recognize divorce, would find that permission all but impossible to grant in the case of divorced Group Captain Townsend. But though now free and 25, Margaret, as an heir to the throne, must still reckon with objections from Parliament, where the bishops in Lords and the powerful Nonconformist backbenchers in Commons could make trouble. To get around this, Margaret would probably have to trade her right of succession...
...rescue party from Lake Louise struggled up Mount Temple, worked all night to find the nine victims. Only Townsend Balis had been killed instantly; four had died slowly of exposure. Two were found dead in a snowbank. Two others, still alive, were brought safely down the mountain. Said Dr. P. G. Costigan, park medical officer: "If the boys had even been dressed in suitably warm clothing, probably most of them could have come out all right...
...bombshell arrived in mid-January when the great Copey--Charles Townsend Copeland '32--unexpectedly announced his plans to retire at the end of the academic year on the advice of his doctor. Luckly for the undergraduate, be planned to keep his famous Hollis 15 room and the equally famous discussion hours that passed behind its doors. For more than 30 years, the legendary figure had lectured from Harvard podiums, and it was all but impossible for many to imagine the University without...
...area, are a necessity. Management's demand for a wage cut, on the other hand, must carry with it the responsibility on its part to reinvest profits in new machinery that will reduce costs, raise a worker's productivity, and, thereupon, enable wages again to rise. Charles C. Townsend...